Re: [PERFORM] SAN/NAS options

2005-12-14 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
The Apple is, as you say, cheap (except, the Apple markup on the disks fuzzes that a bit). Its easy to set up, and has been quite reliable for me, but do not expect anything resembling good DB performance out of it (I gave up running anything but backup DBs on it). From the mouth of Apple guys, it

Re: [PERFORM] Whence the Opterons?

2005-05-09 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
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Re: [PERFORM] Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID

2004-08-26 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
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Re: [PERFORM] Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID

2004-08-26 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
Oops. My bad. They must really want to sell those things if they're making them completely platform independent... On Aug 26, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Tore Halset wrote: On Aug 26, 2004, at 14:07, Andrew Rawnsley wrote: The unit itself is built very well, and the admin tools are very good (OS X

Re: [PERFORM] Anyone familiar with Apple Xserve RAID

2004-08-26 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
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Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-22 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Rawnsley) transmitted: On Jun 21, 2004, at 2:02 PM, Andrew Hammond wrote: We're looking for an alternative to fiber-channel disk arrays for mass storage. One of the ideas that we're exploring would involve having the cluster on an NFS

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres over Linux NBD or NFS

2004-06-21 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
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Re: [PERFORM] column size too large, is this a bug?

2004-03-29 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
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Re: [PERFORM] column size too large, is this a bug?

2004-03-28 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
Andrew, I used to use the connect-by patch, but have since rewritten everything to use a nested set model. Cool! You're probably the only person I know other than me using nested sets in a production environment. -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco --------

Re: [PERFORM] column size too large, is this a bug?

2004-03-26 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
al with that, and neither should those users.) Theory B, of course, is that this is an actual bug in the patch and not just incorrect installation. I'm not interested enough to investigate though. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)------

Re: [PERFORM] annoying query/planner choice

2004-01-12 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
middle of the afternoon I would have no problems at all. On Jan 12, 2004, at 12:40 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Rawnsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a situation that is giving me small fits, and would like to see if anyone can shed any light on it. In general, pulling 10% of a table *shou

Re: [PERFORM] annoying query/planner choice

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
Low (1000). I'll fiddle with that. I just noticed that the machine only has 512MB of ram in it, and not 1GB. I must have raided it for some other machine... On Jan 11, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Andrew Rawnsley wrote: 20-25% of the time. Fiddling

[PERFORM] annoying query/planner choice

2004-01-11 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
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Re: [PERFORM] Performance: BigInt vs Decimal(19,0)

2003-09-29 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
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